Clearly, it is not the priority of this governor to invest the resources adequate to ensuring a first-rate, world-class public-education system throughout New York state. Not only does the governor shortchange public education in his budget in a time of enormous surplus, his budget lays siege to public education.

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Some feel [special ed] is detrimental to the regular kids. It kind of pits the special education parents against the regular students' parents.

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